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Nominations open for Prix Aurora Awards

By Edward Willett in Blog
December 29, 2009
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Back in August, I had the great good fortune and honour to win the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English for my novel Marseguro (that’s me holding it at left, alongside my editor and publisher, Sheila Gilbert of DAW Books). The Prix Aurora Awards honour the best of Canadian science fiction and …

Terra Insegura cover art minus the text

By Edward Willett in Blog
December 16, 2009
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In his New Works gallery on his website, Hugo Award-winning artist Stephan Martiniere has included the cover of my DAW SF novel Terra Insegura, minus the text (title, my name, DAW logo) that clutters up the actual book. It’s a stunner! And I literally got a chill looking at it when I realized for the …

Terra Insegura makes a top-10 books of 2009 list…

By Edward Willett in Blog
December 2, 2009
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…from blogger and reviewer Shaun M. Duke at The World in the Satin Bag. He puts Terra Insegura at No. 6, just ahead of (ahem) Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Here’s his entire list, and here’s what he had to say about Terra Insegura: 6. Terra Insegura by Edward Willett One of the few science fiction …

The centre of the universe likes Marseguro & Terra Insegura!

By Edward Willett in Blog
October 10, 2009
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OK, I should probably explain that the centre of the universe is a blog. The blogger, who goes by the handle Cenobyte, writes, in part: There is just enough nerd factor in these books to make them sciencey, and there is just enough of a fabulous story to make them fictioney. In fact, both of …

A new review of Terra Insegura…

By Edward Willett in Blog
October 9, 2009
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…showed up today on the LiveJournal My Den. After a brief description of the plot, the blogger writes: But once on Earth, several things become apparent. Richard has the tactical skills of a tomato plant, the alternately revered and despised Victor Hansen turns out to have had a lot of skeletons in his closet and …

The catch-all post: recent reviews and other bits

By Edward Willett in Blog
August 30, 2009
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You may have noticed that blogging pretty much dried up after WorldCon. Heavy-duty vacationing will do that to you. And now that I’m back home I’m so completely snowed under by things that need doing that blogging generally falls pretty far down the list. Heck, I’m barely managing a Tweet now and then. Still, I’ve …

A couple of nice reviews on Good Reads…

By Edward Willett in Blog
July 29, 2009
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…for Marseguro and Terra Insegura have showed up from Bookchick, host of the all-about-books radio program I was recently on on Regina’s CJTR community radio station. Highlights of the Marseguro review*: Marseguro is an action-packed adventure full of humour, characters who are familiar as soon as they’re introduced, and a sense of urgency that doesn’t …

Two new reviews of Terra Insegura…

By Edward Willett in Blog
July 23, 2009
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…recently popped up. The first is from arch thinking. Choice bits: “…Terra Insegura stands on its own very well…a real action-packed science fiction novel….Anyone who likes their science fiction fast and well-written will enjoy Terra Insegura.” The second I particularly like, because it’s from a 17-year-old reader at Flamingnet.com, which offers young people the opportunity to …

Errant Dreams gives Terra Insegura four out of five stars

By Edward Willett in Blog
July 10, 2009
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A new review of Terra Insegura popped up today at the Errant Dreams blog, and it’s a pretty good one–four out of five stars. A couple of excerpts: Edward Willett’s Terra Insegura is a sequel to his Marseguro. As happens all-too-often with reviewing, I haven’t read that previous book. However, that does make me eminently qualified to …

The first sentence I wrote today…

By Edward Willett in Blog
June 20, 2009
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Mother Northwind’s smile faded. Words today: 1,072 Total thus far: 21,062 I only had about thirty-five minutes of actual writing time today, although I did a lot more typing than that: at 2 p.m. I went to the Book & Brier Patch, our local independent bookstore, for Robert J. Sawyer‘s reading from his new novel …

“Great space opera of the extra-pulpy variety”

By Edward Willett in Blog
June 15, 2009
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That’s how Michael H. Payne sums up Marseguro and Terra Insegura. About the latter, he specifically has this to say: This one has a few more “snags” than the first book–some places where the plot machinery creaked a bit and where the characters acted to further the story rather than in a way anyone in …

Terra Insegura is a bestseller!

By Edward Willett in Blog
June 13, 2009
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Not, alas, on the New York Times‘s list, but at one store in Saskatchewan, anyway. It shows up as the fourth-bestselling mass-market paperback at McNally Robinson, which then translates into number nine on the overall bestseller list published by the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, which includes hardcovers. Thanks to Robert J. Sawyer (whose new novel Wake is …